GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 440512
Starts with black background, regardless of configured idle color
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:25:54 UTC
[ Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/422952 ] "I changed the default background color of all the "System Monitor" gnome panel applet graphs from black to white. However, when the applet loads (when start an X session) the graphs are initially all black. As seconds pass, the applets records a graph with a white background, eventually replacing all of the black background. This "start with a black background" behavior happens via another means as well. If I right click on the applet and select Preferences, I'm presented with a window that has "Monitored Resources" such as "Processor" and "Swap Space". If I disable, then re-enable a resource, all the graphs to the right of the toggled resources are disabled then re-enabled, exposing the "start from black" behavior. To clarify what I mean by "graphs to the right": 0) Set the background of all resources to white. 1) Enable monitoring of all the resources 2) Toggle (disable then re-enabled) the "Processor" resource. 3) Notice that all the other resources graphs are blanked with black and gradually fill with white as the graph is recored. 4) Toggle, for example, "Swap Space", and notice only the "Load" and "Harddisk" are reset to black."
I submitted the origional Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/422952
I can confirm this. I was about to report it myself so I'll save you the dupe. [I set the idle colour to be the same as the default panel background colour, and it looks really silly for this brief block of black to go by before it fades to gray] AfC
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